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SB 828 Maryland Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Access, Guidance, and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act)

SB 828 (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act) requires Maryland's Attorney General to develop guidelines limiting immigration enforcement at specific sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals, places of worship, childcare centers, and disaster response sites. State agencies operating at these locations must either adopt policies aligned with the guidelines or provide written notice to the Attorney General explaining why they won't adopt such policies, including copies of existing policies. The bill directly affects state agencies managing facilities like hospitals, schools, and shelters by mandating policy alignment or transparency regarding immigration enforcement. It does not create new enforcement powers but sets procedural requirements for state agencies to follow. The guidelines must be developed in consultation with stakeholders and are designed to limit immigration enforcement at these locations "to the fullest extent possible" under federal and state law.
Issues: ✓ ImmigrationSupports ImmigrationRestricts state enforcement at sensitive locations, limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement per bill's guidelines.95% confidence
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Apr 2025
Governor
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Apr 7, 2025
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What changed between versions

First - Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Guidelines and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act) → Third - Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Access, Guidance, and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act) · 5 edits
MODERATE
SB 828 was significantly revised to expand its scope and clarify its requirements. The original version focused on requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines, while the revised version adds specific prohibitions on schools, libraries, and state government units at sensitive locations from allowing federal immigration enforcement access. The bill now explicitly defines sensitive locations to include public schools, libraries, health care facilities, courthouses, and other state-funded service locations. It also adds new requirements for the Attorney General to publish guidance for the public and relevant agencies about limitations on federal immigration enforcement activities.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded from a general requirement for guidelines to include specific prohibitions on access at sensitive locations and new definitions of what constitutes a sensitive location. The applicability now more clearly targets public schools, libraries, and state-operated facilities.
REQUIREMENT

Added specific prohibitions requiring public schools, public libraries, and state government units operating at sensitive locations to deny access to federal immigration enforcement personnel unless a valid warrant exists or exigent circumstances apply.

Added new requirement for the Attorney General to develop and publish guidance informing the public and state agencies about limitations on federal immigration enforcement activities at sensitive locations.

DEFINITION

Expanded the definition of sensitive locations to explicitly include public schools, public libraries, health care facilities operated by state government, comptroller facilities, courthouses, and other locations providing state-funded services related to health, education, or shelter care.

ENFORCEMENT

Changed the bill's focus from requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines to also requiring the Attorney General to develop guidance regarding individuals interacting with federal personnel.

TECHNICAL

Added a committee report indicating favorable action with amendments and Senate adoption, along with updated legislative history dates.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 24, 2025 · House of Delegates Mar 22, 2025

How they voted

33–13
Passed
Total votes 46
Mar 24, 2025
D Democratic33
32 Yea 1 Nay
96% Yea
R Republican13
1 Yea 12 Nay
92% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
33
Key actions
16
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Third Reading Passed
upper
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee Report {
upper
Apr 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Clippinger, Moon and Bartlett)
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Smith, Sydnor and McKay)
upper
Apr 7, 2025
Introduced
Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
upper
Apr 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading Passed with Amendments
lower
Apr 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate J. Lewis) Adopted
lower
Apr 5, 2025
Amended
Floor Amendment (Delegate M. Morgan) Rejected
lower
Apr 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Motion Not Allow Laid Over (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
lower
Apr 5, 2025
Introduced
Floor Amendment {
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Introduced
Floor Amendment {
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable with Amendments {
lower
Apr 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (33-13)
senate
Mar 22, 2025
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (96-39-4)
house of delegates
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
Referred Judiciary
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Third Reading Passed
upper
Mar 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable with Amendments {
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable with Amendments {
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Committee
First Reading Judicial Proceedings
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
District
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Will Smith
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MD
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